cray pot tipper

 with the cray season slowly approaching I wanted to set the boat up so its more user friendly. I have a 4.5m quintrex fishseeker ( tiller steer ) with 100mm gunnels, I was thinking of mounting a removable cray pot tipper on the left and a winch on the right. I will be using the normal 3/4 slat pots locally and plastics when I go away. water depths ranging anywhere from 6m to 30m.

I was wondering if anyone had a setup on a similar sized boat and how you found it? also roughly how much your setup cost, ive allowed $1400 to get the job done.   cheers in advance


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may need a few more coins

Wed, 2014-07-16 08:21

unless you can do some yourself, have that set up but mine is 6.2 plate ali

electrical with isolator & pedal switch   300 ,winch 700 on port side , tipper 600

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 thanks mate... the install I

Wed, 2014-07-16 08:26

 thanks mate... the install I can do, but any fabrication ill have to get done. 

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 what brand winch do you

Wed, 2014-07-16 16:20

 what brand winch do you have? have been looking at the anchormax by maxwell 24m a minute under load 500w motor

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 Hey mate I know someone that

Wed, 2014-07-16 10:30

 Hey mate I know someone that makes tippers at the right price pm me if your interested

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 pm sent

Wed, 2014-07-16 14:07

 pm sent

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estuary marine closing down

Wed, 2014-07-16 14:14

estuary marine closing down auction on the weekend . Looks like there are quite a few winches

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 I Compleatly forgot about

Wed, 2014-07-16 14:28

 I Compleatly forgot about that.... ill defantly be checking that out!

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Estuary Marine

Wed, 2014-07-16 20:48

I think you will find that the winches they have listed are trailer winches.

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Bit off topic...

Wed, 2014-07-16 21:00

...but what is it with Mandurah boat dealers? In the last few years, the Suzuki mob on Pinjarra Rd, the Evinrude/Glacier Bay/Bonito mob in Quarry Way, Yunderup Marine, and now Estuary have folded. Is the economy that bad?

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 Estuary marine auction

Wed, 2014-07-16 22:04

 Estuary marine auction does anyone know when and where this is?

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Estuary Marine Auction

Thu, 2014-07-17 04:23

Saturday the 21 for boating gear and the Sunday for boats ( I think that's the right dates )look up Blacks Auctions on the net they have a listing of the items to be auctioned

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 Thanks mate 

Thu, 2014-07-17 09:36

 Thanks mate 

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RobertMc

Thu, 2014-07-17 15:58

Hi are you looking at going to auction? would like to catch up and have a talk about the pot tippers, if you are

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would like to mate but

Thu, 2014-07-17 17:00

would like to mate but thinking of going for a squid, i can give you my mates number if you like.

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 Going for a squid where?

Sun, 2014-07-20 08:58

 Going for a squid where? Where are they at the moment Rob?

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 I went in the Cockburn sound

Sun, 2014-07-20 09:08

 I went in the Cockburn sound mate but the weather was shit house a real strong northerly, I got one on my first drift and nothing after that, I was drifting at 2knots, should of taken my sea anchor lol

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Winch position

Sun, 2014-07-20 09:43

Stick the winch on the opposite side you want to pull your pots on with its foot controls next to where the pot is going to come up. Forget about a tipper, your boat isn't big enough, just get some 8-10 inch diameter poly sewerage pipe and cut down one side if it so you can open it up and slide it over your gunwhale. This makes the rope slide over very easily without having to do a tight angle.

Once the pot hits the boat its just a case of lifting it up and into the boat with one end resting on the floor and the other on the poly pipe

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 no worries cheers

Sun, 2014-07-20 19:52

 no worries cheers carnarvonite